Down to earth
That day, he spent the entire lunch period talking to Mikaela. He learned that she had moved there from New York, and she loved to paint and write her own songs on the piano.
She was down to earth and intelligent, and he knew for a fact that she was not the mean girl Megan made her out to be. If only the rest of the school could see what he saw in her. At the time, he was only interested in being her friend, but what he didn’t know was that another boy had his eyes on her.